The administrative area of ​​Shanzhou is entirely formed by its geographical characteristics.

There is Zhongtiao Mountain in the north, Wushan in the south, and Huashan in the west. It is surrounded by it, and only connects with Mianchi in Henan Prefecture to the east. Then the Yellow River runs from the southeastern part of the river and crosses the city from the prefectures and counties.

The water of the Yellow River extends more than ten miles wide, with a vast atmosphere, rushing like a dragon, coming from the west and unstoppable. Along the road, on the big rocks on the river bank, it hit one huge whirlpool after another. The water vapor in the roar surged like white mist, wetting Gao Yue's clothes.

In the northeast of Qianshi County, Shaanxi Province, Gao Yue stood on the shore of cutting straight cutting and heard the sound of trumpets. Then he saw a group of merchant ships erecting small flags. The hulls were not big, because the Yellow River was not allowed to sail from Heyin to the Weishui section. They were surging up and down in the waves. In order to seek one-tenth of the floating food, they ventured against the current.

Their destination is Dayang Bridge, which is further west of Sanmenxia Dizhu.

Gao Yue turned his horse's head and walked side by side with the merchant ship. The horse's hooves were light and fast, less than twenty miles away. He saw Dizhu Mountain again.

The main pillar of the river is Sanmenxia. Its mountain is like a pillar, standing in the Yellow River. The river water flows here, like a three-men. It is said that Dayu was digging the big river to clear the river. During the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, he wanted to drill the main pillar wider, but the water level of the Yellow River became even more violent. Countless craftsmen were buried in it, so he knew that manpower could not defeat nature.

Because the Tang Dynasty established its capital in Chang'an, the rice and grain in Guandong had to pass through the pit transportation from the main pillar. There were countless ships here. Everyone was shocked when they heard about the three gates of the main pillar. Pei Yaoqing presided over the grain transport for three years and transported 7 million stones of grain. From then on, it was costly. Even at that time, there was a saying in the world that "fight of rice and money" was "for transportation."

When Li Mi was the prime minister, he ordered a land route be opened next to Dizhu, and a return lane was paved on the side. All the materials of all ships were changed to land transportation by carriages and horses. After passing Dizhu, they were changed to boats and ships to Dayang Bridge.

Gao Yue saw the winding and twisting plank road on the cliffs on the river bank on both sides of the main pillar. There were countless long grinding marks on the stone walls of the plank road, and many iron rings, grooves and rust marks were raised. They were the traces left by the ship when he passed the Sanmen and pulled the fibers. It was shocking.

In order to keep the empire's heart beating, countless blood gathered, and the pillar seemed to be an embolism in the blood vessels and the tailbone in the river. Once any problems occur here, the huge empire will easily fail to function and even fall suddenly.

"Langjun, Gao Langjun." Gao Yue heard someone calling him like this in the sound of the big river.

On a large bulging and hanging rock in the river, looking from a distance, Old Hu'er was holding a food box and waving to him from a distance.

"Brother-in-law." Gao Yue got off the horse and walked up to hug the old Huer who was about to bow.

Old Hu'er is already very old and time is unforgiving, but isn't he a chef at my father-in-law's house?

At this moment, Old Hu'er pointed to the eaves behind him and said that Mr. Liu wanted to eat me steamed Hu again, so he sent someone to invite the old man out of the capital.

Hearing this, Gao Yue's chest suddenly became blocked.

"Is Yi Song here?" A familiar voice came from the eaves, but it was far less clear and turbid than that of that time, but became old and turbid.

Liu Zongjing walked over, lifted the curtain, and shouted: "It's Mr. Ji who is here to see you!"

Then Zong Jing carefully helped his hunched father out of the eaves.

At this time, Liu Yan's hair was much thinner, his forehead was protruding, and his right hand was suffering from wind numbness and could not move freely, and his eyes began to become weak. The eyes that could have seen Qian Liu on the flat ground were not very enlightened now.

Only when Gao Yue came to his eyes could he see clearly.

Finally, the curtain on the eaves was removed and used as a bed, so that the thin Liu Yan could sit on it.

Gao Yue knelt on the mat beside him and sat with Liu Zongjing.

Further away, Liu Yan's old servant Wanda squatted there, like a clay sculpture. Now he is completely deaf and his eyes are invisible. It is not easy to get here from Huazhou with his master.

"Yi Song, do you still remember the encounter between you and me in the wind and snow? I once told you that although my career was not going well, I still wanted to go further." Liu Yan said leisurely, "That's right, what I wanted at that time was to enter the Political Affairs Hall as the Prime Minister."

Gao Yue remained silent.

"What a pity, I said at that time that my hair was gray, and now more than ten years have passed, and I am about to lose my mind. But I also figured it out that I would not let the ministers who searched for wealth and wealth be the real prime minister. At that time, I was just a delusion..."

"Shi Yan, why do you say that you are a minister of searching for Kuo?"

Liu Yan smiled and said to Gao Yue, "That's right, I was the minister who went to Jianghuai for the substitute Diwuqi to search for Kuo. Now it's Yisong, you are the turn of you to do this, but the times have changed: In the past, I did not allow the ministers with wealth to be the real prime minister. When Yisong, you are the real prime minister and the national economy and wealth. Maybe in twenty or thirty years, you will really let the ministers with wealth to enter the Political Affairs Hall to be the real prime minister - because for the emperor, money and food are becoming more and more important.

Whoever controls the wealth and transportation of the country will control the fate of this country.

"Yi Song, I know your idea. You are preparing to reform the canal transportation, gather half of the financial resources of the world, especially the southeast of the Jianghuai River, train new troops, and then pacify Ziqing and Heshuo, and unify the country again. I asked you earlier that you have completed most of the completed training, not only successfully trained troops in the northwest Yingtian, but also restored Longyou and Hexi. What I want to hear now is how do you plan to implement your innovation method in Jianghuai River?"

Speaking of this, Gao Yue locked his eyebrows and bowed his hands in silence.

He didn't know whether he should tell Liu Yan about some thoughts.

"Tell me." Liu Yan's eyes were full of gentleness. He encouraged Gao Yue, "Are you still afraid of an old man who is about to die?"

At this time, Gao Yue spoke: "The first one is to change the canal transportation route, and then to abolish the false estimation method of Master Yan."

But Liu Yan seemed to have understood it for a long time, squinted his eyes and sighed slightly, "The false estimate is not the disadvantage of the law, but the disadvantage of the time. Our country's rule of law, the soldiers of the autumn army in the northwest need to give spring and winter clothes, and buying horses from the Uighurs also requires a large amount of silk cloth. However, Henan was broken and Heshuo was divided, and the silk cloth produced could only rely on the Jianghuai. One piece was worth four stakes of coins, so the false estimate was carried out to let the salt merchants pay more silk cloth and transport it to the capital and the northwest. However, now a piece of silk cloth is not worth eight hundred stakes, which has been reduced by five times. The merchants still used the price of four stakes of coins per piece to offset the salt money. It is time to abolish it."

"Not only that, the government collected taxes on the Jianghuai River and demanded that all pay money, so the people first exchanged the woven cloth for money. Therefore, the people could only trade a piece of cloth for 800 yuan. During summer taxes, the number of cloth discounted at once, and the price dropped to 500 yuan per piece. However, after the people handed over the cloth, the local government still used the price of four jin of each piece to offset two taxes, and made great efforts to seek personal gain. It has not been a year or two for the people to suffer this."
Chapter completed!